Eleanor M. Miller: Street Woman

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Interviews with female street hustlers working in prostitution, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and larceny<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877224174&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="389_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><h1>Street Woman</h1> <h3>Eleanor M. Miller</h3> <P>cloth 0-87722-417-X $34.95, Apr 86, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <br>paper 0-87722-509-5 $31.95, Apr 87, <FONT COLOR=#990033>Available</FONT> <br>Electronic Book 1-59213-136-0 $28.95 <FONT COLOR=#990033>Out of Print</FONT> <BR> 216 pp </P><h3 align="center"><P><font color="#996633">Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association Criminology Section, 1987</font></P> </H3> <BLOCKQUOTE><I>"Miller's firsthand report of female offenders documents a picture of contemporary female criminality.... </I>Street Woman<I> is field research at its best. The reader will be angered and disturbed, enlightened and absorbed."</I> <br>&#151<b>Darrell J. Steffenmeier</b><I></I></BLOCKQUOTE> <p>In this rich, well-written study, Eleanor Miller analyzes the social organization of street hustling and the lives of the women involved in it. Miller views hustling as "illegal work": prostitution, fraud, forgery, embezzlement, and larceny. Using information garnered from life histories and interviews with 64 female street hustlers in Milwaukee, she vividly describes a female underclass recruited to the world of the street for a substantial period of their lives. <p><I>Street Woman</I> offers a challenging alternative to recent sociological studies that view the "women�s movement" as directly linked to the increasing participation of women in property crime. Miller shows that this increase in crime is a response to sustained poverty. Thus, many sociologists are out of touch with the typical female criminal in this country on both a demographic and personal level. "Typical" female hustlers, as their own words poignantly reveal, are young, poor minority women who have limited education and skills and who also have several children of their own. They adopt characteristic interpersonal relationships and familial forms that insure their survival but which leave the youngsters at greater risk of being recruited to street life. <p><I>Street Woman</I> is a work of great importance to sociologists and criminologists alike, both in its ramifications for public policy and its explicit implications for further research. Most important, Miller�s desire to render a more personal portrait, to enable us to "at least recognize the individual in the picture painted of the group," leaves the reader with haunting portrayals of the women who struggle to survive in the violent, desperate, drug-ridden world of the street. <BR> <h2>Reviews</h2> <p><I>"This book deserves a large audience for it provides convincing detail on the recruitment of women to this kind of </I>demi monde<I> and spells out for us a far more persuasive social process than that anticipated in more abstract models. Like the best of our ethnographics research it provides both a refinement of existing theory and a descriptive document that can outlast existing theory."</I> <br>&#151<b>Gerald D. Suttles</b>, University of Chicago <BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2> <P><b>Eleanor M. Miller</b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.</P> <BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2> <p><A HREF="/tempress/law.html" TARGET="_top">Law and Criminology</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/women.html" TARGET="_top">Women's Studies</a> <BR><A HREF="/tempress/sociology.html" TARGET="_top">Sociology</a> </p> <BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2> <P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/women_political.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Women in the Political Economy</a></i>, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg. </p><p>No longer active.<p><i>Women in the Political Economy</i>, edited by Ronnie J. Steinberg, includes books on women and issues of work, family, social movements, politics, feminism, and empowerment. It emphasizes women's roles in society and the social construction of gender and also explores current policy issues like comparable worth, international development, job training, and parental leave.</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9780877224174&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="copyright.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Web Copyright Policy';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Web Copyright Policy">©</a> 2015 <a href="http://www.temple.edu" target="new" onMouseOver="window.status='Link to Temple University home page';return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''" title="Link to Temple University home page">Temple University</a>. All Rights Reserved. http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/389_reg.html</font></p>